Livingstone-MacLeod MLA Pat Stier spent some time at the Calgary Stampede this week rubbing elbows with constituents and local farmers alike.

Stier says it's a privilege to represent the Foothills at the BMO Farm Family Awards.

"It's always a great thing to be down here to the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede and be here for this event. Often as not there's many families from my huge riding that are being awarded each year. And it's my privilege to be here again this year for actually three families. But I also know several of the other families that are represented here from some of the other constituencies here in Southern Alberta."

Stier says he see's a lot of old friends from his time on the M.D. of Foothills Council as well.